Bob Ellis silenced by death

Writer, critic, filmmaker, speechwriter, fighter, mocker and rhetorician Bob Ellis has died at home surrounded by his family.
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Image: Two sides of Bob Ellis, cropped from an image on Labor Voice.

Writing about nitrate film, Bob Ellis once said, ‘And the incinerators of history are waiting, as always, to burn up the good and the bad, the mighty and the trivial, to kill the brain cells of national memory, to pour it all out mercilessly into the void.’

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.